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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5116165" data-attributes="member: 54707">Another thing that just struck me is the fact that if the gods of the Colonies are anything at all like most of the Earthly gods they are named after, (or before) then these gods are hardly moral exemplars in behavior (as per the early holoband scenes) or even what would normally be considered psychologically stable by most modern, civilized men.It is interesting to watch the populations of these worlds attempting to outgrow their gods in moral behavior (that is in the case of the holoband they still seek to emulate the behavior of violent, pagan gods, but to do so virtually, exercising the conduct of the old rituals, yet without real bloodshed, much like modern videogames, or even role play) and temperament, and yet simultaneously emulate the gods in other ways. It is also interesting for me to see the tension between the implied (underground morality of the gods) and the arising of monotheistic ideas about God (though perhaps not what would in most cases be considered "modern monotheistic ideals about God") at the near exact point in history where their technological capabilities allow them to emulate both their bets and worst ideals about the gods and God. In other words technology allows them to emulate God at the same time that ideas about what is the true nature of God are just forming for both human society and for Cylon construct. Again, no accident, it is central to the underlying storyline. But it is an interesting situation to watch, and to see how they react religiously, morally, immorally, culturally, and scientifically. Imagine that ideas about a monotheistic God were just now spreading in our modern society, instead of having been developed for thousands of years, and also imagine that at the same time even more sophisticated scientific and technological developments than are occurring on our own world were afoot. It would create some fascinating and very confusing conditions.</blockquote>

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